From Anton Dohrn 7 September 1871
Summary
Reports on the international support he has obtained for the zoological station [see 7038]. Asks CD whether he will serve on a board of naturalists who would receive an annual report on the station.
Huxley is now convinced by AD’s views on homologies of the nervous system of arthropods, annelids, and vertebrates. Kovalevsky takes the same line but does not go far enough.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7925 |
To Anton Dohrn 8 September 1871
Summary
Agrees to have his name on the list of naturalists to whom annual report [on zoological station] should be sent.
His health has been very bad for last six weeks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 8 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 698) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7926 |
To Anton Dohrn 3 February 1872
Summary
Thanks AD for his article in Das Ausland ["Englische Kritiker und Anti-Kritiker über den Darwinismus", 49 (1871): 1153–7].
Mivart’s book [Genesis of species], which misinterprets CD’s views, has produced a great effect in England.
He has answered the point about incipient structures being useless in new [6th] edition of Origin.
His Descent has had immense circulation, but has met with approval of hardly any naturalists. He supposes it was a mistake to publish it, but it will pave way for a better work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 3 Feb 1872 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 699) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8199 |
From Anton Dohrn 15 February 1872
Summary
AD is sorry CD thinks publication of Descent a mistake. The excitement shows it was necessary for someone to speak plainly.
His great difficulties (Italian indolence, dishonesty, hatred) in establishing zoological station. Can at last start construction.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8214 |
From Anton Dohrn 21 August 1872
Summary
Has reported on the Naples Zoological Station to BAAS meeting at Brighton. Hopes to open it in January. Is at work building up the library by contributions from publishers and naturalists.
Deplores Wallace’s "drifting away" and his association with such men as H. C. Bastian.
Disbelieves in ascidians as our ancestors. Has a substitute he is sure will please CD.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8481 |
To Anton Dohrn 24 August [1872]
Summary
Rejoices at success [of Naples Zoological Station]. Will send complete set of his books to the library.
If AD is interested, he will send a copy of Expression when it comes out.
Invites AD to visit Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 24 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 700 & 700a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8486 |
From Anton Dohrn 28 August 1872
Summary
Will call on CD next year, when he will have worked out the embryology of Amphioxus; he believes it is not primitive but a degenerate form of fish. He believes the true ancestors of vertebrates are annelids.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8489 |
From Anton Dohrn 13 November 1872
Summary
Is amazed at Expression. Like CD’s former works, it contains the material and principles of a new science.
The Zoological Station is making good progress – now has a fine building. Hopes for a stable income from contributions of various governments.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Nov 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8624 |
From Anton Dohrn 27 January 1873
Summary
The Naples Zoological Station and its library are growing fast. His life is a constant battle with the municipality, but has managed to make a little progress on vertebrate ancestry and morphology. His views get further away from what is generally accepted.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 212 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8750 |
To Anton Dohrn 2 June [1873]
Summary
Thanks AD for kind review of Expression. AD’s remarks on necessity of tracing development of functions are novel and valuable.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 2 June [1873] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (D.O. autogr. 12/50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8933 |
From Anton Dohrn 7 June 1873
Summary
News of Naples Zoological Station developments.
His remarks on physiology in the Academy were aimed at Prof. Ludwig and his school.
The usual "exact" methods in experimental physiology want only a little pushing to put an end to superstition.
Recounts how he had worked out the explanation of Rhizocephala morphology via the Anelasma – an example of both the power of inheritance and the power of genealogical investigation. R. Kossman’s work has now confirmed AD’s explanation.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 June 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8937 |
From Anton Dohrn 12 February 1874
Summary
Birthday greetings.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9285 |
To Anton Dohrn 13 February 1874
Summary
Thanks for birthday greetings.
Comments on work at Naples Zoological Station. F. M. Balfour to visit Naples. Would like to send third son [Francis Darwin] to learn art of observing marine animals.
Health indifferent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 13 Feb 1874 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 711) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9289 |
To Anton Dohrn 7 March 1874
Summary
CD is grieved to hear that AD is overworked and troubled about the Zoological Station. Glad he is now writing to seek assistance from English naturalists. Sends a subscription of £100 and £10 each from George and Francis Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 7 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 712) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9338 |
From Anton Dohrn 6 April 1874
Summary
His gratitude for CD’s gift. An account of his difficulties with the Zoological Station and his health.
F. M. Balfour has told him that CD would like to see the question of complemental males in cirripedes studied again. AD would like to enter the field and to study the whole morphological development of cirripedes.
Describes the interest in embryological work in Russia and Germany.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9394 |
From T. H. Huxley to Anton Dohrn 15 November 1873
Summary
THH sends to AD a draft, prepared by himself and CD, of a statement for a subscription fund to assist AD’s Naples Zoological Station.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 15 Nov 1873 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 13: 249) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9412 |
To Anton Dohrn 16 April and 9 August 1874
Summary
Has written to J. Murray to have account of the Zoological Station inserted in the Murray guidebook.
The circular about the Station has been printed; some have already signed.
Received R. Kossman’s paper on Anelasma ["Untersuchungen über die durch Parasitismus hervorgerufenen Umbildungen in der Familie der Pedunculata", Verh. Phys.-med. Ges. Würz. N. F. 5 (1874): 129–57]. The case is the most interesting ever recorded of gradation, i.e., from an animal with a stomach to one with roots like a plant.
Delighted he will examine the complemental males of Scalpellum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 16 Apr and 9 Aug 1874 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 702) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9414 |
From Anton Dohrn 7 February 1875
Summary
Thanks to CD’s help Zoological Station has passed a crisis and is now flourishing.
Is writing pamphlet on "the origin of vertebrates and the principle of succession of functions" [see 9991 and 10003]. It is likely CD will not be pleased with it, but he thinks he must now, after seven years, bring it out. Seeks to open the way for a new series of theoretical questions.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9845 |
To Anton Dohrn [after 7 February 1875]
Summary
The Zoological Station has already resulted in "capital work" by F. M. Balfour and Ray Lankester. G. J. Romanes is coming next year.
CD will be interested in AD’s ancestry of vertebrates. "I shall be very sorry to give up the ascidians."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | [after 7 Feb 1875] |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 1120) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9852 |
To Anton Dohrn 24 May 1875
Summary
Thanks AD for his Ursprung [der Wirbelthiere (1875)], which astonished CD. AD’s views, if accepted by competent authorities, will show how much we have to learn about the history of every animal. Suggests caution on "degradation principle". Comments on other views in the work. Has long seen importance of the principle of "Functionswechsel" [transfer [change!?] of function], but never enunciated it as a distinct principle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 24 May 1875 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 1122) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9991 |
Dohrn, Anton | (21) |
Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Dohrn, Anton | (19) |
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Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |